[andrewingram]

This is actually a really good point and a glaring oversight on my part, I'll have to edit that part of the post.

[Update: I've changed the last paragraph of the article to reference your comment and this solution]

I think the solution is to create a version of loaddata that knows how to work with South's frozen ORM. A quick search turned this up: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5472925/django-loading-da...